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Chapter 2 talks about different ways to communicate, the Internet and networks. One thing that I learned was what LAN and WAN stands for. Whenever I use my wireless connection I see those and didn't know what they meant. But LAN stands for local area network and WAN stands for wide area network. I also learned that the Internet has been around since 1969. The main purpose for it back then was for military and scientific use and to be stable enough to function even after a nuclear disaster. I thought that that was very interesting because most people including myself don't think that the Internet was around for that long.

One new skill that I have acquired since last class is how to search for things properly on the Internet. Who new that there was a correct way or a way that would get you better results. I learned that if I want to search for a specific phrase of word that I should put it in quotations. I also learned that the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button will take you to the most relevant site for what I searched. I also learned that there is much more to Google than it's searching capabilities. Google has a phone book, currency converter, product search, book search, and even something called Google Scholar. This tool will probably be useful in the future. What it does it searches through scholar journals, books, articles and more. One of the more useful things that Google has is Google for Educators and this just gives some ideas to help out teachers.

One thing that I would like to mention is something that happened about a week ago at the University of Florida. Senator John Kerry was speaking at the school and when one student started questioning Kerry things got out of hand. Only seconds into the student asking Kerry a question the student starts responding to someone asking him to leave the stage. The student never got violent or rude or hostile in anyway. If anything the student appeared to be passionate about the matter. Well, because the student didn't stop talking he was not only taken forcefully off the podium and handcuffed but also tasered in the back of the room. While all of this is going on all the student is saying is what did I do why am I being arrested. What for having freedom of speech, for feeling passionately about a certain matter. I feel that his rights as a student and human being were extremely violated. the situation should have never gotten out of hand like that and I am extremely upset about the whole thing and feel that we should be aware about things like this happening as college students.